Sonnette



(N0 Mode G'. W. SHERMAN.

SONNETTE.

No. 596,249. Patented Dec. 28,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. SHERMAN, OF LYNBROOK, NEW YORK.

SONNETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,249, dated December 28, 1897.

Application filed September 1, 1897- Serial No. 650,262. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SHERMAN, of Lynbrook, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sonnettes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to obtain in what is known as a sonnette or clapper a ringing or bell-like effect as distinguished from the mere tapping, hammering, or clicking sounds produced by such instruments as heretofore constructed.

A sonnette embodying my invention may be characterized as a musical sonnette.

Figure 1 is a face View, and Fig. 2 an edge View, of a double sonnette embodying myinvention. Figs. 3 and 4 are edge views of single sonnettes, illustrating two modifications of the invention.

Referring first to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the stick,and B B are two spring-tongues arranged on opposite faces of the stick and each secured at one end to its respective face. These tongues consist of strips of spring-steel or other elastic and sonorous metal, and have their free ends coiled, as shown at Z) in Fig. 2, to give them to the fullest extent the sonorous or bell-like quality by which my musical sonnette is distinguished from the sonnettes heretofore constructed, in which the springtongues are loaded with hammers which act as dampers to destroy the sonorous or belllike quality of such tongues.

The tongues B B may be attached to the stick in any suitable manner. They are represented as attached by staples or twopronged tacks a.

The example shown in Fig. 4 has only a single spring-tongue, which is coiled at the free end like the tongues in the example, Figs. 1 and 2; but the tongue instead of terminating within the length of the stick, as

shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is prolonged beyond the end of the stick, so that its coil 1) projects.

In the example shown in Fig. 3 the tongue is represented as straight. This straight tongue may project beyond the end of the stick A, as shown, or may terminate within the length of the stick.

\Vhile I prefer to make the tongues with coiled ends on account of its giving them a more bell-like character, the same ringing effect is produced in a lesser degree when they are straight, provided they are prolonged beyond the end of the stick to get a greater vibratin g length and they are not loaded or encumbered with hammers or dampers or anything that interferes with their active vibration and natural tonic sonorous quality.

In all the examples illustrated the springtongue is made to vibrate throughout all its length except where it is directly attached to the stick.

It is obvious that a tongue of either of the forms represented may be used either double, as shown in Fig. 2, or singly, as shown in Figs. 3 and at.

IV hat I claim as my invention is 1. In a sonnette, the combination with a stick, of a tongue consisting simply of a strip of elastic and sonorous metal which is attached to said stick at one end only and the other end of which is prolonged beyond the end of the stick, substantially as herein described.

2. In a sonnette, the combination with the stick, ofv an attached spring-tongue the free end of which is coiled, substantially as herein described.

GEORGE \V. SHERMAN.

\Vitnesses FREDK. HAYNES, EDWARD VIEsER. 

